six am in moscow i matter as a good to have you with us here on r t our top story in syria third bomb blast rocked the city of easily just hours after nine people were killed and around one hundred wounded in twin explosions there the government says the opposition the government and the opposition are blaming each other for orchestrating the attacks the u.n. warns the ongoing violence threatens a peace plan that it helped broker the head of the expanding u.n. observer mission to syria says the road maps futile unless all sides observe a cease fire damascus maintains its fighting a foreign funded insurgency just days ago a lebanon intercepted a large shipment of smuggled weapons apparently bound for a syrian rebels beirut based political analyst kamil was and he thinks foreign interference could be destabilizing the region. the smuggling weapon hasn't stopped from the day one on its own we know that's how these been funded by said by syrian

live ensued yet a.b.n. we know the money is coming from saudi arabia and from qatar and from other entities and they coming through lebanon one of that is through lebanon and this is this one chip ben actually but there's a lot of weapon that been used and smuggle into syria and that tell you the real story when the foreign minister was to do you say we have to arm the opposition that he's saying let's keep killing continue and terrorism taking place hold on syria even the american the western eyes the western world know that there is a lot of terrorism taking place in syria al qaeda been moved into syria from out of the country funded by some government in the arab countries this is going to be devastating not only for syria this is going to bring a regional war that nobody want that now or in the future. a new war of words is

flared between the e.u. and ukraine over the case so former prime minister yulia timoshenko she is serving a prison term for abuse of power brussels claims the case was politically motivated to machine cose currently staging a hunger strike artie's election as the latest from kiev what seems to be a purely domestic case has received very serious international reactions with presidents of germany the czech republic the head of the euro commission as well as german chancellor angela merkel all saying they will boy called their plans trips to ukraine in particular for the u. of twenty twelve football period as if to protest against the treatment. former prime minister now even called on the german national football team to boy call it their participation in this tournament the idea which was even supported by the president of the champions league final this club byron munich now also reactions came from moscow with president medvedev raising his eyebrows over the treatment of you to go saying that this these actions to throw serious shade on ukraine's

reputation and are unacceptable for a democratic country that all these reactions you had to my cycle reported to have been abused by prison guards and photos of her bruises were made public on the internet as well as when to stand that team of medical experts was dispatched by ukraine's own woman to the prison and they old confirmed the fact of the physical attack from the prison guards on. this raise the tension dramatically and key is also already reacted with indignation to all the statements coming from europe saying that such rhetoric puts the countries back into the times of the cold war while the war of words continue certainly but everyone all experts now understand that keith is under severe pressure especially with less than forty days before the start of the you were twenty twelve football championship last friday's terrorist attacks individuals with serious concerns about the security during the tournament now definitely the developments in the commercial situation are creating serious political implications. latest addition of julian assad is a controversial t.v.

series coming to r.t. tuesday the whistleblowers already interviewed the head of hezbollah and then brought together two political extremes from both sides of the atlantic parties laura smith has a preview of what's up next. well this is the third episode of the program and the guest this week is the first president of the new president. of course is where the arab spring first really kicks off and the jasmine revolution as it's come to be known was ok but one of the most successful revelations that the arab spring has caused it was prompted of course and this is why this is this program is so interesting the revolution was prompted at least in part by revelations from wiki leaks the wiki leaks released some cables at the time about corruption in the choosing governments hold then president ben ali who's been in power since nine hundred eighty seven and that was the first really hard evidence in documentation

that the people of tunisia had seen that their government was so corrupt in the government couldn't suppress that information. is an entirely different cloth from his predecessor he's no doctor and he's also a human rights activist and in fact during the reign of the previous president ben ali he was exiled and imprisoned and so he is seen to have some of the greatest moral authority of all the arab leaders at the moment during his imprisonment he was kept in solitary confinement which he considers to be taught cherry talks quite a lot about that during the program and he's determined there will be no more talk during the program he recalls a time when he were invited to the u.s. to talk about the human rights situation in tunisia and he says that that reveals a complete set of double standards four years ago are i was a right to do in washington. to talk about human rights and to news you know. i was a very. important. dealing with human

rights issues are no i'm not going to meet this person because you could be ridiculous to talk with this guy knowing very. well you know that he was probably be implicated in the want to know more problem you going to talk it you can to take seriously somebody awards placated in torture in his own country and then this guy is going to give you some lesson about how to promote human rights in tunisia this is why i didn't accept to meet him that's just a tiny bit of this program you can catch the whole third episode of the well tomorrow on choose day at eleven thirty g.m.t. check missed it.

six party talks looks set to reconvene with iran next month over its nuclear program hawks on capitol hill don't seem ready to change their attitudes the u.s. congress recently voted down a bill aimed at reestablishing direct negotiations with terror on parties got a shaky on explains why the motion didn't stick you're thirty six and number of u.s. lawmakers have proposed a bill to end the no contact policy between the u.s. and iran after three decades of diplomatic silence congressman dennis kucinich is one of them which he says the old approach when washington wants to resolve differences with iran through not talking to them is unsustainable we're being told we should have any contact with them we're being told that we shouldn't be negotiating with them we're being told. to get ready for war all of that is wrong. what we need to do is to have direct negotiations we need to be talking with

iran and we need to stop this vainglorious notion that somehow we can settle our differences with iran through war how many people share your view among their colleagues eleven. ten eleven that's how many votes out of four hundred thirty five members the house of representatives has recently voted four hundred eleven to ten in support of the bill which would make it illegal for any american official to make contacts with a new radio in a third hole without congress' approval so in light of the numbers dennis kucinich is counter efforts seem more symbolic than real if congress is sending a message to the world that says look we don't have to talk to you we don't have to

negotiate with you will wage war on you if you don't do our do our bidding that's not how you treat people imagine for a moment if at the height of the cuban missile crisis if. nikita khrushchev and john f. kennedy. we're not speaking to each other opponents of direct talks with iran or argue why the u.s. should do it before iran lift its own ban on negotiating with us are the rainiest ready for direct talks i don't see the iranians lifting their ban before the us that's because the iranians are in a much weaker position than the united states and so it does take more capital for them to agree to such steps opinion polls show the majority of americans seven out of ten say yes to diplomacy with iran but instead a message their representatives want to hear the voices of. arms merchants

of war contractors the people who just make money off a war they don't care where the war is or who are rich i just want to make money and they can push the u.s. spawning another war they'll do it and members of congress have to be wise as to when they're being played by interest groups who may want them to vote in one way but it would be a way that would be adverse to the interests of the american people with a decision to outlaw any contacts with the iranian government american lawmakers are building brick by brick a legislative wall that makes the prospect of ever having normal relations with a rand virtually impossible it also seen men see radians in their view that it's not their nuclear program that washington is after but regime change a proposition that could only lead to further escalation i'm going to check on reporting from washington r.t. . remember you can find all our stories and much much more any way at our teeth any time at our t. dot com here's what's a click away right now. replicating history but let's hope for

a happier ending titanic the second set to set sail by twenty sixteen get all the details that are t. dot com. also online and drive by death if you see one of these cars roll by make sure your wife eyes turned off for a recent report confirms a google street view vehicles were intentionally phishing in private data from wireless users find out more at r.t. does count. these are the images. from the streets of canada. a giant operation to rule the day. once heralded as a beacon of impartial reporting britain's main broadcaster the b.b.c. now being accused of being too pro-government in its reports as bennett finds out it's the people who fund its existence that are complaining the most.

you know when you the prim and proper speech may be on the way out but the message is still the same impartial reportings the top priority of the b.b.c. but does britain's public broadcaster really represent those who funded. the b.b.c. in my mind has a judy to challenge the government in power and they are failing to do that and they are not representing the people they really need to listen to the public because at the end of the day we are paying their wages the b.b.c. gets three and a half billion pounds from the public every year in the form of license fees so if you own a television in britain and you have to pay almost one hundred fifty pounds just to watch it that spent on programming as well as news that many don't feel they're getting their money's worth on twitter for example b.b.c. bias is a hot topic the channels reporting of the government's controversial health and

welfare reforms have stoked recent debates. many still fiercely oppose the bills passed in parliament and claim they've been ignored not just by the government but by the broadcaster to die i truly believe had our national broadcaster accurately reflected everything that was taking place in terms of the welfare reform bill in the n.h.s. they wouldn't have gone through parliament you will notice that when they talk about austerity measures they don't necessarily refer to cuts they refer to savings and that's a manipulation of words opposition party labor made an official complaint over the wording it's accused the broadcaster buckling under government pressure to get on side when challenged on this the b.b.c. gave us this statement b.b.c. news provides impartial and balanced coverage across all output and we believe we have a food in the n.h.s. reform bill the appropriate level of coverage across radio to. in online our

flagship news programs and bulletins reported extensively on a wide range of opposition views from politicians health workers and members of the public with coverage on other thorny topics like scottish independence has been heavily criticised too with doubts recently cast over the impartiality of senior correspondents these b.b.c. training videos posted on you tube show its reporters attacking scotland's pro independent stance a stance distinctly unpopular down south the b.b.c. again denies bias but some say it will always pander to whoever's in power here the b.b.c. is guilty of gross journalistic irresponsibility m.e.p. gerard batten risk to prosecution for publicly refusing to pay his t.v. license fee his protest against the b.b.c.'s coverage of the two thousand and nine european elections he claims it plucked a pro europe government fed line the bay they say does things with propaganda now

that. marvel at their subtle use of language the way they present stories the way they try to like you think something based on their presentation you know and i've done a fantastic job if you're in the propaganda business you know you have to admire what they've done what really makes me angry is that doing it with our money and this is my reason for being opposed to the license for judging by the growing dissent on twitter others could soon follow suit our bennett r.t. london. spain's plugged into a second recession made government measures to rein in the country's debt ratings agency standard and poor's downgraded eleven the spanish banks many of which are bogged down in bad loans as the spanish government confirmed a second recession in as many years sweeping cuts to health care and education have seen thousands take to the streets angered at government austerity measures economics professor philip bega says the situation in spain could get even worse and the younger generation has no choice but to leave the country. but of course

there's been very very bad position and if they fail this course directly effect other european banks but it was effective spanish government tried to these then it's banks and the government is not the new president of the position either so that in this village government my might not be able to below the banks it might defaulted in these devoted to direct ability think of course the banking system and the e.c.b. this government is suffering because of some some small reforms. but it actually is not doing enough just to watch the first and the most and that outflow. of spence flow for a long time many of them make in fact they are integrating them in courses in school overbooked so that people who grew two foot five countries and young people because they see their perspectives this benish the labor market is still too

inflexible washington is trying to exert its influence in the asia pacific region entering into security talks with the philippines the move angered china which feels the u.s. is encroaching on its own territory china's clash with the philippines on a number of occasions in the south china sea an area thought to be rich in oil and gas john glaser assistant editor of antiwar dot com thinks the u.s. is trying to contain china. the motives of the u.s. in the philippines as well as in asia pacific generally is. imperial dominance it's the same that is as the are their motives in the in the middle east and in central america the obama astray sion has instigated a strategic pivot to asia pacific mainly to contain china is rising economic and military influence. washington considers military

power and economic progress prerogatives of their own only and so. they want to know that we have military bases in troops in japan and singapore in. in south korea in the philippines. in australia and the aim here is to make our military power known invisible in order to contain china take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe gunfights ever uttered in mallees capital bamako was troops who overthrew the government in march clashed with forces loyal to the ousted president several reportedly killed when loyalist storm the national broadcaster headquarters at advanced on the airport the military coup brought chaos to mali and is allowed separatists in the north to split the country into. ferry capsized in northeastern india leaving at

least one hundred five dead and more than one hundred missing the boat was packed with passengers when it got into difficulties in the west dhubri district of the country strong winds and rain are thought to have caused the accident police and soldiers sent to help with the rescue effort. a leading bopper a knee anti-government activists will be retried along with twenty other opposition members a military court said it's abdul hadi al who watched it to life in prison in june for plotting to overthrow the state's rulers he started a hunger strike three months ago reportedly bringing himself close to death the anti-government protests first started in bahrain in february last year up to sixty are said to have died in clashes since. a kind of militants have offered to release a british hostage in exchange for a radical muslim cleric currently under arrest in the u.k. abu qatada a preacher described as an inspiration to many terrorists has been fighting deportation for a decade in his native jordan he's facing tara charges the british hostage being

offered in return stephen malcolm was kidnapped in mali this november. you back with a recap of our top stories in about ten minutes first though we speak with chris hedges author and veteran u.s. war correspondent to ask where he thinks washington is headed when it comes to mystic and global policies stay with us. chris hedges is an american author journalist former war correspondent and

respected expert on middle east politics the pulitzer prize winner is also a man who is suing the us president and secretary of defense will be talking about that and a range of other issues as mr hedges joins me now for a one on one interview thank you very much for sitting down with r.t. sure we have seen a lot of violence and instability over the past couple of years the arab spring foreign intervention in libya uncontrollable debt problems and riots in the u.s. and throughout europe threats of global recession how do you think these political and economic crises feed off of one another and keep the momentum going well it's all the same process which is the collapse of globalization it doesn't work anymore and it manifests itself through the rise of commodity prices so we have created a kind of global oligarchy elite which is super national it owes no loyalty to any particular country it has reduced the working class within the united states within

the developing world. to a level of almost subsistence existence it tells workers that they have to be competitive on a global marketplace which means they have to be competitive with sweatshop workers in bangladesh or prison labor in china so it's a reconfiguration by corporations of a global economy where the working and and beleaguered middle class are increasingly caught in a vise in which there is no escape the system of globalization of unfettered unregulated corporate capitalism doesn't work for the ordinary citizen and that if we are seen ignite popular protest and i think that's the main reason why. occupy wall street began in new york emblazed not just the nation but the world what does the occupy movement lack to become a real politic factor in the u.s.

and throughout the world right i mean the other thing about the occupy movement is that it had the right target which is wall street at this point washington is an appendage of wall street wall street is where power lies both economic and political the power of the occupy movement was that it spoke for the mainstream and the state's goal is to sever the occupy movement from the mainstream so the occupy movement has got to build walls it's got to develop a kind of self-discipline it's got to set standards which do not allow internal movements within the occupy organization to sever itself from the mainstream they have to form agreements by which they can operate in order to keep labor with it it has to latch on to issues such as the raising the minimum wage that will bring labor out into the street and keep it as the kind of vanguard movement of the mainstream whether it can do that or not i don't know we'll have to see and speaking of government in the u.s. currently in an election year republican candidates are now battling one another

for the opportunity to oppose obama come november however skeptics view both parties as more similar than different because we've seen military invasions corporate bailouts and breaks for the wealthiest under both democrats and republicans how can a new political force start to grow in america if it's sort of the same type of cycle every four years well that's the problem and it's gotten worse because after citizens united in two thousand and ten. with the creation of these super pacs and obama broke a campaign promise by. reaching out to a super pac of his own i mean in a way he has no choice because this money rules and it has a pernicious effect not only on elections but on the process of legislation because if you are an elected official and you do anything that angers corporate

lobbyists and corporate power then you know that the weight of that super pac will sweep you out of office and not only that but that when you are under attack you won't have a super pac to appeal to so it's all political theater the fact is the personal narratives and personal pinions of political candidates do not matter there is no way to vote in this country against the interests of goldman sachs obama is a more appealing political candidate because he's sane but power i mean look the obama administration has carried out the policies of the george w. bush administration whether in terms of wall street imperial projects a failure to address the suffering of the working class address the long term unemployment crisis and the federal government is doing nothing except squandering four trillion dollars on wars that we're going to lose we're losing and handing money over to a class on wall street that is complicitous in a centrally hollowing the country out from the inside you are plaintiffs in the

case are suing us president barack obama and secretary of defense leon panetta over the national defense authorization act from what i read ten. other activists have now joined you in that lawsuit what do you what do you realistically aiming for well the gloss clearly unconstitutional i mean i don't think you need to be a legal scholar figure out what you don't but it was still signed into law yes it was and. at the lower level there are certainly judges unfortunately we may not have been handed one but there are judges that. i think. would find the courage to rule that i think it does raise public consciousness it creates an awareness of this law. it gives us a focal point by which we can carry out public demonstrations to oppose the law so it's an effort but i don't think we're naive about about the corruption within the judiciary the us claims to promote democracy within america and throughout the

world when it comes to syria the us is calling essentially for regime change sovereign state the us says that syrians deserve democratic transition but when you mention countries like iraq afghanistan and libya shouldn't the u.s. and in some ways learn some lessons before trying to teach more countries about the let's imagine how this so those in the middle east where we were mubarak's great supporter. you know i don't think anyone in the muslim world thinks that we care much about human rights or democracy we have since the first gulf war planted military bases some the size of small cities i think there is at this point absolutely no credibility i'm talking about within the middle east when the united states claims that it would like to bring liberty or democracy to syria my feeling is that everything should be pushed through to create some kind of

a ceasefire rather than pass a resolution that calls for assad to removal or resolution that calls for intervention or anything else there's no real formal opposition you know it's a sort of a mess and they just went through this in libya mr hedges thank you for your time and for speaking with r.t. thanks.

six thirty am in moscow the headlines deadly terror attacks in the syrian city of evil lead to kill ninety injured dozens more this is the u.n. warns it's powerless to implement a peace plan unless both sides lay down their arms both the government and opposition blame each other for the bomb and. political pressure on ukraine growing over the treatment of former prime minister yulia timoshenko with e.u. politicians threatening to boycott the euro two thousand and twelve football championship commission go says she was assaulted by guards in a prison where she's serving a seven year term for abuse of power brussels says the case is politically motivated. wiki leaks founder ready to take center stage again is the host of his exclusive r t interview show later today julian assange as you go.